4.2. The Users and Groups Module

The Webmin module Users and Groups that is found under the System category (as shown in Figure 4.1) can be used to create, edit, and delete all the UNIX users and groups on your system. You should always be careful when using this module to edit existing system users like root and daemon because changing or deleting them could stop your system from working. Some users have their home directory set to / (the root directory). Deleting such a user would cause all the files on your system to be deleted!

Figure 4.1. The Users and Groups module icon.

In addition to managing the UNIX users on your system, this module ...

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